Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
TODAY’S TOP
SCOOPS:
A Week Of It: Does Gibbs World
Service Have The Answers For TVNZ?
Malta:
Peters Refutes Media Reports That He Led Immigration
Debate
Govt Recommends Geoffrey Palmer To Be Law
Commission President
McCully Stomps On Boffins
Rebranding Exercise -
Gloves Come Off in
Parliament
Court Frowns on Small-Print
Surcharges
KFC Workers To Hold First Stop-Work
Meeting 6pm
Auckland Tunnel Options Discussed At
Symposium
Tamilflu now only available
seasonally
Photo-Essay: NZ Army Launches
Battle In Manawatu/South Taranaki
MORE
HEADLINES
SCOOP REPORTS:
Scoop
Video: Unite Launches SupersizeMyPay, Targets Starbucks
-
Scoop Report: New Nat Criticises Sir
Kenneth's Appointment At Odds With Party
MORE
SCOOP REPORTS
Australian PM Howard visits
Islamabad
Largest-ever gathering of former
Guantanamo prisoners and prisoners' families: US government
must give independent UN experts full access to
Guantanamo
MORE INTERNATIONAL
HEADLINES
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Public
Address - Tze Ming on Cunliffe and Much
More
Leopold: Miller Wasn't First to Get Plame
Leak
Dahr Jamail: White Phosphorous In Fallujah -
Revisited
MORE COMMENTARY
OTHER NEWS
(Just Politics):
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE
Police Will Not Charge Benson-Pope - Was A Prima Facie
Case
Traitor's Ancient Deeds Lead To Carnage In NZ
POLITICAL HEADLINES
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TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
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A Week Of It: Does Gibbs World Service Have The Answers For TVNZ?
A Week of It had a chinwag with ACT leader Rodney Hide recently and shot the breeze on the topic of broadcasting. This week an inquiry regarding TVNZ begins in no small part thanks to Mr Hide's urgings. Sadly, Mr Hide's own forays into broadcasting are obscured by the murky mists of time. In the mid 90s Mr Hide acted as an intermediary for Alan Gibbs in running BBC World Service NZ and was even, from time to time, on the radio himself. See... A Week Of It: Media Blasts From The Past [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00319.htm
Malta:
Peters Refutes Media Reports That He Led Immigration
Debate
- Allegations made in the media to the
effect that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rt Hon Winston
Peters is in some way involved with leading a debate on
immigration whilst attending CHOGM this week in Malta, are
“totally inaccurate and the direct result of a reporter
interviewing his Malta newspaper in his hotel room,”
suggested Mr Peters today. See... Peters
refutes allegations of immigration debate [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00384.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00385.htm
Govt Recommends Geoffrey Palmer To Be Law Commission
President
- Minister Responsible for the Law
Commission Mark Burton announced today that he had
recommended Sir Geoffrey Palmer for appointment as the new
President of the Law Commission. "I have recommended the
appointment of Sir Geoffrey to the Administrator of the
Government, the Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias," Mark Burton said.
See... Burton
recommends Sir Geoffrey for appointment [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00373.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00376.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00413.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00202.htm
McCully
Stomps On Boffins Rebranding Exercise -
They are touchy, touchy people over at GNS Science – the Crown Research Institute previously called the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. Asked by the worldwide headquarters most excellent analysts to supply the budgets and rationale for the recent re-branding, they were gracelessly forthcoming. See... www.mccully.co.nz 25 November 2005 [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00386.htm
Gloves
Come Off in Parliament
- Alastair Thompson reports
on question time: Thursday in question time the
Labour Party has indicated an intention to fight fire with
fire over allegations that David Benson-Pope placed a tennis
ball in a pupil's mouth and taped his hands to the desk
during his time as a teacher in Dunedin before becoming an
MP. In response to questions he first accused National MP
Judith Collins of fiddling her Casino Control Authority
overseas travel expenses and later accused the tennis ball
discipline complainants of being bullies themselves. See...
Cullen
Goes Nuclear Over Benson-Pope Tennis Ball [1]
ALSO:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00298.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00180.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00343.htm
Court
Frowns on Small-Print Surcharges
- Air New
Zealand has been found guilty of breaching the Fair Trading
Act by misleading customers about the real price of its
airfares. The Commerce Commission brought the case against
Air New Zealand after receiving complaints that customers
were unable to fly for the prices advertised by Air New
Zealand because extra mandatory charges were being added to
the advertised price. See... Air
New Zealand adverts misleading: Court [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00203.htm
[2]
- Air New Zealand Ruling Sets Precedent for Fair
Trading
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00417.htm
KFC Workers To Hold First Stop-Work Meeting 6pm
- As part of Unite Union's SuperSizeMyPay.com [1] Campaign, KFC workers at Balmoral, Auckland, are holding their first-ever stop-work meeting to decide on a strike over lifting the minimum wage to $12 and abolishing youth rates. The meeting is being called by the Unite Workers Union. 6pm today (Friday) - @ KFC Balmoral - cnr Dominion & Balmoral Rds... See... Support KFC workers voting for STRIKE! [2] ALSO: Saturday Sees First Workers Charter Meeting In Wellington [3] - The first campaign meetings to promote the Workers Charter are being held this coming weekend in Wellington and Palmerston North. See... Workers Charter Campaign Meetings Wgtn & P North [4]
[1] - http://www.supersizemypay.com
[2] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00199.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00193.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00193.htm
Auckland Tunnel Options Discussed At Symposium
- Unveiling Transit's updated 10-year Auckland State Highway construction programme last August, the Prime Minister Helen Clark endorsed a tunnel for the Avondale section of the SH20 Western Ring Route as a modern city solution to minimise adverse impacts ... See... Where Is Auckland's Tunnel Vision? [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00412.htm
Tamilflu
now only available seasonally
- Heightened
interest in avian influenza has resulted in an unprecedented
increase in demand for Tamiflu worldwide. Roche is therefore
taking the step of prioritising its global production
capacity of Tamiflu to ensure it is available where it is
needed most. That is, for patients experiencing seasonal
influenza and, for the fulfilment of government pandemic
orders. See... Tamiflu
supplies prioritised for flu season, govt [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0511/S00092.htm
Photo-Essay: NZ Army Launches Battle In Manawatu/South
Taranaki
- Exercise Silver Warrior runs until 26
November and is designed to test the Army's new motorised
battalion in a number of different scenarios. The exercise
is being conducted in the Manawatu, Rangitikei and South
Taranaki regions, and is based on a fictitious United
Nations Mission. See... Images:
Exercise Turns Region Into Battleground [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00192.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00370.htm
MORE
HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0511/S00087.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0511/S00088.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00410.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00409.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00408.htm
SCOOP
REPORTS:
Scoop Video: Unite Launches
SupersizeMyPay, Targets Starbucks -
WORLD FIRST
For the first time globally, Starbucks got a taste
of Union today. Unite launched its SuperSizeMyPay.Com [1] Campaign
today with a crowd of about 100 people gathered to send a
message to Starbucks and other fast-food and cafe outlets to
give their workers a fair deal. Worldwide, this is the first
time a Union has picketed Starbucks.Scoop Video: Unite Gives Starbucks a Taste
Of Union [2] ALSO: Unite release - Worlds
First Starbucks Strike Spreads To 10 Stores [3]
EARLIER
[1] -
http://www.SuperSizeMyPay.Com
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00285.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00182.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00370.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0511/S00387.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00338.htm
Scoop
Report: New Nat Criticises Sir Kenneth's Appointment At
Odds With Party
- New National MP John Hayes, former foreign service official, has hit out in his maiden speech at costs involved in securing Sir Kenneth Keith's position to the International Court of Justice a position that the National Party's justice spokespeople had fully supported only a week prior. See... National Sends Mixed Messages Over Kenneth Keith [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00290.htm
MORE
SCOOP REPORTS:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0511/S00052.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0511/S00051.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00244.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00237.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00246.htm
Australian
PM Howard visits Islamabad
- Discusses aid to Pakistan; visit to Afghanistan; polls; Van Nguyen; Michelle Leslie. Ladies and gentlemen I am of course delighted to be in Pakistan. This is the first time I have visited this country as Prime Minister. I've expressed in the past my admiration for President Musharraf, his stoic role in the fight against terrorism, the personal courage he himself has displayed in the face of a number of assassination attempts and the crucial part he has played in the success in Afghanistan and the wider message that sends in the fight against terrorism is most important. See... PM Howard in Islamabad [1] ALSO:PM Howard meets President Karzai of Afghanistan [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00426.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00427.htm
Scoop
Link: Guardian on Gagging of Iraq Leak
- The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq. It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way. See... Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00296.htm
Largest-ever
gathering of former Guantanamo prisoners and prisoners'
families: US government must give independent UN experts
full access to Guantanamo
- Amnesty International
and Reprieve today called on the US government to stop
blocking meaningful United Nations access to its Guantanamo
detention centre and agree to access to all prisoners. The
organizations were responding to the passing of a midnight
deadline for the US government to agree to terms for a visit
to Guantanamo by five independent experts of the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights. See... Largest
gathering of former Guantanamo prisoners [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00423.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00425.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00424.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00422.htm
MORE
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00417.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00415.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00408.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00428.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00420.htm
SCOOP COLUMNS
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Tze Ming on Cunliffe and Much More
- A class act, our new
Minister of Immigration. Some in the English-language
communities already refer to him as 'Silent T'; perhaps his
new Mandarin name shall be David ɵŒÂliffe. Caught mocking
Pansy Wong's accent during Parliamentary Question Time, by
asking her to 'wead' a particular document, Immigration
Minister David Cunliffe "later said his remark was
accidental and did not know he had said it." Um... is this
the manslaughter defense? See... Public
Address 24/11/05 - Conduct Unbecoming [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00314.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00294.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00291.htm
Leopold:
Miller Wasn't First to Get Plame Leak
- Embattled Washington Post editor Bob Woodward provided an important clue that may help shed light on the identity of the person who told him in June 2003 that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. In an interview with "Larry King Live" Monday night, Woodward said he realized that he was the first journalist to learn of Plame Wilson's covert CIA status when Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictment last month of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff... See... Leopold: Woodward Provides Clues About His Source [1]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00303.htm
Dahr Jamail: White Phosphorous In Fallujah -
Revisited
- Nearly a year after they occurred, a few of the war crimes committed in Fallujah by members of the US military have gained the attention of some major media outlets (excluding, of course, any of the corporate media outlets in the US). See... Dahr Jamail: Fallujah Revisited [1] MEANWHILE ¡ Pentagon Admits To White Phosphorous Misinformation - US used white phosphorus in Iraq: Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 23:57 GMT BBC News - The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. "It was used as an incendiary weapon ... See... Link: White Phosphorous Use As Weapon Confirmed [2] AND ... Pentagon Has Called White Phosphorus a "Chemical Weapon" - An American Department of Defense document, declassified in 1995, refers to white phosphorus a chemical weapon. Washington has maintained that the use of white phosphorus weapons in the battle of Fallujah was not illegal, as it is not a chemical weapon. See... Pentagon Calls White Phosphorus "Chemical Weapon" [3]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00233.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00238.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00282.htm
MORE
COMMENTARY:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00313.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00312.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00311.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00309.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00308.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00305.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00304.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00302.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00301.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00300.htm
[11]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00299.htm
[12]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00295.htm
[13]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00293.htm
[14]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00292.htm
[15]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00287.htm
[16]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00284.htm
OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)
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SCOOP IS IN THE
HOUSE:
Police Will Not Charge Benson-Pope - Was A Prima
Facie Case - Superintendent Fraser said that while
the criminal justice system would not be invoked there was a
prima facie case concerning an event where a student's hands
were taped to the desk while he had a tennis ball in his
mouth and another event involving another student being
struck on the face. While there was some conflicting
evidence Police concluded there was a prima facie case.
See... No
Prosecution for Hon David Benson Pope [1]
ALSO:
Traitor's Ancient Deeds Lead To Carnage In NZ - This year’s Guy Fawkes festivities bought nearly 2000 call-outs for Police and Fire Service personnel, with Fire Service figures showing it was the worst Guy Fawkes in 10 years. In the 10-day period this year when fireworks were legally for sale (October 27 to November 5) firefighters attended over 700 fireworks-related fires in vegetation, buildings, and cars as well as nuisance fires in rubbish bins, letterboxes and other small spaces. See... Guy Fawkes the worst in 10 years [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00188.htm
POLITICAL HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00374.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00373.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00371.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00369.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00380.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00383.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00381.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00379.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00378.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00376.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00375.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00372.htm
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00382.htm
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00377.htm
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00358.htm
[16] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00355.htm
[17] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00354.htm
[18] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00349.htm
[19] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00365.htm
[20] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00363.htm
[21] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00364.htm
[22] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00362.htm
[23] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00359.htm
[24] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00357.htm
[25] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00356.htm
[26] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00350.htm
[27] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00348.htm
[28] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00361.htm
[29] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00360.htm
[30] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00353.htm
[31] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00352.htm
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